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Erasmus Darwin Keyes was born on May 29, 1810 at Brimfield, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Justus Keyes, a prominent physician, and of Elizabeth (Corey) Keyes. His English ancestry went back to Solomon Keyes, who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony; and to Giles Corey, said to have been killed for witchcraft. When the son was still a youth, the Keyes family moved to Kennebec County, Maine.
Keyes enrolled in the United States Military Academy and graduated in 1832 as brevet second lieutenant.
For a time Keyes was at Fort Monroe, Virginia, then he was at Charleston, South Carolina, during the nullification troubles. On August 31, 1833, he was commissioned second lieutenant, 3rd Artillery. He was aide-de-camp to General Winfield Scott, 1837-1838, and after a brief service in the West and South again served as aide, 1838-1841. He received promotion to captain, 3rd Artillery, November 30, 1841, and from 1842 to 1844 he was in garrison at New Orleans Barracks and at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.
In the latter year he became a member of the board of visitors to the Military Academy, immediately thereafter serving as instructor at the Academy in field artillery and cavalry, 1844-1848. From 1851 to 1860 he was for the most part on the Pacific Coast, during which period he saw service against the Indians in Washington in 1855 and participated in the Spokane Expedition in the year 1858. He was present at a skirmish with Indians on Spokane River, September 8, 1858. On October 12, he received promotion to major, 1st Artillery, and from January 1, 1860, to April 19, 1861, served as military secretary to General Scott, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
On May 14, 1861, he became colonel, 11th Infantry, and on May 17, brigadier-general of volunteers, commanding a brigade in General Tyler's division at Bull Run. He commanded the IV Army Corps in McClellan's Peninsular campaign and received promotion to major-general of volunteers, May 5, 1862. His corps performed important rearguard service in the transfer of McClellan's base from the York to the James River. For gallant and meritorious conduct at Fair Oaks, Virginia, he was brevetted brigadier-general, United States Army, May 31, 1862.
The IV Corps remained on the Peninsula, 1862-1863, and in a controversy with General Dix over participation in expeditions against White House and West Point, Virginia on January 7, and May 7, 1863, Keyes asked for an official investigation which was refused him. He served on an army retiring board, July 15, 1863, to May 6, 1864, when he resigned from the army and moved to the city of San Francisco. In the West he became president of the Maxwell Gold Mining Company (1867 - 1869). He also was engaged in the savings and loan business.
His death occurred at Nice, France, but final interment was at West Point, November 19, 1895, where his portrait in oils hangs in Cullum Memorial Hall. His Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events (1884), and "The Rear-Guard at Malvern Hill" are among his published writings.
Erasmus Darwin Keyes was noted for his military records during the Indian Wars and the American Civil War. He participated in many battles and engagements and was commended in official reports for his services in the combat at Four Lakes, Washington, September 5, 1858, for commanding a brigade in General Tyler's division at Bull Run, and for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac in Peninsular campaign.
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Keyes was converted to Catholicism in San Francisco in 1866.
Keyes was a vice-president of the California Vine-Culture Society for Napa County, and of the Humboldt Savings and Loan Society (1868 - 1870).
Keyes married, on November 8, 1837, Caroline M. Clarke, who became the mother of five children, one of whom was Edward Lawrence Keyes. She died in 1853 and on November 22, 1862, he was married to Mary (Loughborough) Bissell, by whom he had five children.
